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NC #/ w*Â¥ Our liking for the mosquito is a strange foible. We not only tolerâ€" ate it. We raise it. We provide hatcheries. With care or careless ness we leave large or small pools of stagnant water for the birth, comfort, and sustenance of the wrigâ€" glers. A few pieces of tile or a galâ€" lon of kerosene would drain the NOTES ANDCOMMENTs pool or kill the wrigglers. Both tile and oil are easy to be had. We do not use them. The conclusion is irresistable. We must like the mosquito. That‘s a curious foible. In return the mosquito deprives us of the greatest charm of summer. It denies the garden to ms in the sweet of the evening. When the sun comes down hot and commanding on the lawn and flower bed on young green corn and ripening meâ€" lon, the mosquito will give you leave to be out. But when Venus shows in the evening crimson, when the night breeze comes through the aisles of the woods, when the Great Bear walks overhead, and Arcturus is incandescent in mid sky, the mosâ€" quito chases you, his indulgent prey, indoors and puts you under a hot roof. The summer day has wrought the perfection of the summer night. You may have the heat of the day, but not the beauty of the night, unless your skin be rhinoceros thick and your blood virus proof. Bilent or singing, the autocrat of the summer evening arises out of the tangled green, ont of the rose bush, out of the viburnum, out of the bracken, up from beside the milkweed and the clover, by the wild sunflower and the aster, and asserts its dominance. It comes from the close cropped lawn and the poppy beds, from the dahlia and the gladiolus, out of the mignonette and alyssum and makes makes evident its feudal supremacy. It is the night rider, the poison pest the pirate of lawn and woods. You slap, scratch, and burn joss stiecks and then flee. The beauty of the warm, moist night, scented on earth and starred in the heavens, is not for the irritated, scratching, burnâ€" ing mortal who has sustained sixty poisoned punctures. Back to the secreens for the mosquito‘s serf ; under the roof to get what there may be had of the summer loveliâ€" ness. The night is the mosquito‘s The Panama zone was cleaned up because the mosquito there meant death. _ The pestâ€"ridden territory was made as clean as the polar rigion in winter. If we wish to es cape the pest we must go where ten years ago it was most abundant, where nature is most kindly to it, where every condition favors its prosperity. In that region there are no mosquitoes. Form Large Percentage of Canada‘s Criminal Classes. That the growth of the foreign population in Canada has also addâ€" ed to our criminal statistics is shown by the fact that there are at the prosent time no less than seven murder cases under review by the Department of Justice and in every case it is a foreigner inâ€" volved. The last Canadian criminal statistics available, those for 1912â€"13 show that in that year there were 52 charges and 25 convictions for murder. Of the 25 convictions no less than 17 were foreign bornâ€" foreign born meaning elsewhere than in Canada, the United States or Great Britain. One was born in Beotland, one in England and the remaining six in Canada. So why have the mosquito? Why submit to its control of such a natâ€" ural resource as a summer night! Why be chased indoors and out of the beauty of the night? Why be dominated, terrorized, and sacriâ€" ficed? Why itch and scratch and burn? Why raise the mosquito as a pet and be helpless before it as a pest! What is the mosquito, anyâ€" way, that it should be master of men and controller of his hours! If folk can be rid of it in Panama we can be rid of it here. The Canadian born offenders repâ€" resented 36.1 per cent., although Canadian born form 77.9 per cent. of the population. British born outâ€" o;ge:'f Conadabwere 19 per cent. of t enders, but formed P cent. of the popgi&t?olf A}filngr;é.n 2 per BAgaas us ind ts tican bi were 4.6 per cent. During the same period there were 31 convictions for attempt to murder, and of these only three were Canadian born. The nationalâ€" ity of three were not given and the remaining twentyâ€"four were born outside of Canada. Of these six were Americans and four English, leaving fifteen what are known as "‘Aoreigners.‘"‘ According to the last census figâ€" ures those born in foreign counâ€" triesâ€"excluding United States and Great Britainâ€"formed 6.2 per cent. fipulation. yet in 1912 the foreign rm offenders of all classes were 17.2 per cent. _ »NoeJ Bome people dream of succes Others keep awake and believe it, FOREIGN POPULATION. What Fluffly Knew. Fluffy is a big black and white cat that belongs to Paul, Ned and Bob Hunt. He seems to love Paul, the quiet boy, just a little better than he does Ned and Bob. After he has played with the boys until he is tired, he likes to jump up inâ€" to the big chair and curl up in Paul‘s lap and go to sleep. But best of all, Fluffy likes to sleep on the foot of Paul‘s little bed. Ned and Bob can sometimes coax him up on their beds to play, but when he wants to rest, he a‘iways goes back to Paul‘s bed. 2+ Until last summer the Hunts livâ€" ed in a little eastern town, but in July they moved west. Mrs. Hurt told the boys that they would have to leave Fluffy with friends until they were settled in their new home ; and so the day before they left, Paul carried Fluffy over to Mrs. Brown, who was going to keep him for a while. The land will be sown with as large percentage of American cotâ€" ton seed as possible, and the Agriâ€" cultural Department of Punjab will have the right to purchase any of the surplus seed produced which is not required for the estate, for disâ€" tribution in other districts, The Federation has secured a twenty years‘ lease of 7,500 acres close to the railway and water supâ€" ply. A modern ginning mill is to be erected, and as there is scarcely any population in the vicinity, moâ€" del villages are to be established for the workmen, who are to be brought in and instructed by exâ€" Take fio C‘nnes. f ~Aliceâ€"How many time would you make a man propose to you before _ Marieâ€"If you have to make him propose better say yes the first time. Considering the advances already made in India, it is estimated that before many years the Indian crop will be almost as large as the Ameriâ€" can crop. The model plantation in India will demonstrate the benefits which arise from intensive farming thereby encouraging the landed proâ€" prietors to adopt this system and to improve ‘the yields per acre and the quality of the fibre. Th Fond Fatherâ€"He says he‘s been whipped so often he can tell what kind of wood the teacher‘s switch is made of by the feel. One afternoon, a month later, when Fluffy was curled up in a corner of the hammock, he saw a large wagon stop in front of the house and a boy run up the steps. Fluffy did not like strangers; so he ran upstairs to the attic door, and mewed just as loud as he could. He had always been allowed to go up there whenever he had asked, but this time Mrs. Brown picked him up in her arms and carried him downstairs. In the kitchen he saw a large crate with hay in the botâ€" tom, and iwo disnes {astened in the corners. Mrs. Brown pYaced Flufâ€" fy on the hay, and the boy picked up the crate very carefully, and put it beside him on the seat of the wagon. That night Fluffy was put on the cars. At first he was afraid and cried a gredt deal ; but the men on the train gave him bits of their luncheon, and put cool water into his cup when he needed it, and afâ€" ter a time he curled up in a ball and went to sleep. Leading members of the Federaâ€" tion believe that within a few years it will be possible to increase the Indian cotton crop to ten million bales without encroaching on the area required for food. Manufacâ€" turer in all countries using Indian cotton are subscribing to the proâ€" ject. Doting Motherâ€"And what does the poor darling say ! T. English Spinners Seek to Be Indeâ€" pendent of America. In the hope of some day securing a raw cotton supply independent of America, the International Fedâ€" eration of Master Cotton Spinners‘ and Manufacturers‘ Association of England has launched a scheme for the establishment of a model cotâ€" ton p&ntation in Punjab, India. on and given another ride. / This time the wagon stopped before a large brick house, and the man carâ€" ried Fluffy‘s box up the steps. In the doorway stood three excited little boys. o Breathlessly the boys waited. When Fluffy had finished the milk, he walked slowly through the rooms until he came to the hall. Then he ran upstairs and walked through each of the chambers and looked carefully at each bed. At last he came to the little room where Paul‘s bed stood. Then without any hesitation, he jumped up on the foot of the bed, just as he had always done when he was tsred. curled up and began to purr. $ _ About five o‘clock of the second day after he had left Mrs. Brown‘s he was again lifted up into a} wagâ€" "O Flaffy !‘ cried and Fluffy answered in such a loving tone The boys had a saucer of milk on the floor in the kitchen, and when their father opened the box, Flu{â€" fy jumped out and ran right over to the saucer and drank and drank. MODEL COTTON PLANTATION. "Oh papa,‘‘ cried the boys, from the doorway, ‘"how do you suppose he knew which bed ‘belonged to Paul ?"â€"Youth‘s Companion. Fond Fatherâ€"Tommy writes us a al feeling letter from boarding Sensative. the chilgren, ‘Meâ€"oâ€"0â€"0â€"w‘‘ THESURDAY SCAOOL LESSON _ "Caroline. Smith. ~The idea of suggesting that to me! Don‘t you remember that only last summer 1 was struck by lightning and it didn‘t do me a mite of good !" Verse 11. And as they heard these thingsâ€"The _ dialogue between Jesus and Zacchaeus precedes this parable. Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and the parable of the pounds was spoken either on the road between Jericho and Jerusaâ€" lem or more likely in the house of ZLacchaeus, and they who ~heard were the disciples and others who were with Zacchaeus. They supposed that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear â€"Jesus had been hailed as the Messiah. He had taught that the Kingdom was close at hand, and the belief was probably general among those who _ accompanied him that Jesus would enter Jeruâ€" salem in triumph, and the Kingâ€" dom be immediately set up. He was nigh to Jerusalemâ€" About eighteen miles away, or s1X hours‘ march. ‘‘Many great men have done the same thing. Robert Louis Stevenâ€" son smoked cigarettes.‘"‘ "I know that, but Stevenson had the decency to go to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to do it.‘" ‘‘How can you smoke those vile cigarettes ?"‘ 12. He said thereforeâ€"This parâ€" able is told for the purpose of corâ€" recting their expectation. _ A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdomâ€"The actions of this nobleman would not seem unusual to Christ‘s hearers, for Herod and his son Archelaus had actually gone from Jericho on this errand. A.chclaus na«t met with the unforâ€" tunate experience described in verse 14. 13. The nobleman plans to test the ability of his servants during his absence in order to find out who will be worthy of promotion when he receives his kingdom. _ Ten poundsâ€"A pound was equal to about sixteen dollars. Mrs. Carter had suffered from rheumatism until she declared that she had ‘"no patience with it," but she was always eager to hear of possible remedies, and when her sister wrote that she knew of a cure that had been tried with great sucâ€" cess, and would tell her all about it on her next visit, Mrs. Carter was all excitement. ‘‘Now, Ellen," she exclaimed, cagerly, a few minutes after her sister had reached the house, "do tell me about that cure for rheuâ€" matism! I am so anxious to hear about it that I could hardly wait for you to get here."‘ And to returnâ€"The â€" distance would make an immediate return impossible. _ l ‘ 14. His citizensâ€"The people over whom he was to rule. In this parâ€" able the "citizens‘‘ no doubt reâ€" ferred to the Jews, while the ‘"‘servants‘‘ were the disciples. 15. Having received the kingdom â€"He now possessed full authority. ‘‘Well, Caroline,‘‘ began her sisâ€" ter, ‘"it‘s electricityâ€"‘* . Before she could continue, Mrs Carter interrupted her. Tradeâ€"That is, "do business," as a banker or a trader. What they had gained by trading â€"Better, "what business they had done.‘" It does not imply that each one had profited by ‘his tradâ€" ing. 24. Unused powers and faculties are taken from us. 25. And they said unto himâ€"The listeners interrupt the parable by saying, Lord, he hath ten pounds. The remainder of the verse gives the reply of Jesus, after which he concludes the parable in verse 27, in which a more severe punishment is meted out to the rebellious subâ€" jects than to the unprofitable serâ€" He commanded these servants, unto whom he had given the money â€"This may imply that he owned other slaves to whom he had not intrusted anything. 16, 17. The manifest ability of the first servant gains for him a high position in the kingdom that he has just received. The king has achieved his purpose, which was to get loyal and capable govâ€" ernors. The kind of test made was not unsuitable, since the govâ€" ernors would have much to do with provincial revenues. 18, 19. The smaller profit, indiâ€" cating less energy and ability, is rewarded with like additional reâ€" sponsibility. 20, 21. The third servant makes no excuse. He even thinks himself virtuous that he has kept his lord‘s money so safely. His shirkâ€" ing responsibility, however, and his unwillingness to put forth an efâ€" fort, show him to be unfit for greater responsibility. Austereâ€"That is, "harsh." 22. Out of thine own mouth will I judge theeâ€"The servant‘s own words have condemned him. No other testimony is needed as to his lack of qualifications for proâ€" motion. The servant‘s opinion of the master may have been wholly wrong, but if he believed him to be exacting, he would also know that at least interest would be reâ€" quired on his loan. So the actions of the servant were not consistent with his professed belief. ____ _ vant ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO esson IV. The Pounds and the Talents. Luke 19. 11â€"27. Golden Text, Matt. 25. 21. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 2%. She Had Tried Electricity. Considered Others. Senator Isaac Stephenson Is Canaâ€" dian Born. "I have no specific rules on longâ€" evity to offer," said United States Senator Isaac Stephenson on the 18th of June, when he was 85 ye&xz old. ‘"I believe my long life an good health is due to the fact that so much of my youth was spent in the open. Many is the time I‘ve slept on the snow in the woods. Just think right and live right, and spend as much of your time in the outâ€"ofâ€"door world as you can _ and you‘ll be as young as I am at 85. Why, I don‘t feel a day older than I did the day I was 20." 7 By reason of strength this tall slender man has reached more than fourâ€"score years, and his boast is that he has worked hard ever since he was a small boy in Fredericton, New Brunswick. According to Senator Stephenâ€" son it is the idler who will be cut offyears before the allotted span of threeâ€"score years and ten, given "I‘ve just sold a little lumber,"‘ he said to the Senator across the aisle. And that was only one of many _ checks made payable to Uncle Ike Stephenson in the sevenâ€" tyâ€"three years since he began work in a lumber camp. works. "Work is the greatest blessing on earth,"‘ he repeated, ‘"work, and the open air!" ¢ f Also Richest Man. The oldest man in Congress is also the richest, and he carries the responsibility of one distinction as simply and naturally as the other. It is a far ery from the boy in New Brunswick, who canoed up the St. John‘s River on a logging trip when he was 11 years old, to theâ€" United States Senator {from Wisconsin, who, when he was 84, fumbled a check for $7,000,000 in his fingers. Senator Stephenson lives on & farm at Marinette, Wis., where his chief enjoyment is his horses and cows, Percherons and Holsteins. Whereas he takes pride and delight in his horses and has for more than fifty years, he confesses to an everâ€" increasing fondness and admiration for the gentle, placid cow. ‘‘Well, it‘s cold," sai«fl the Senaâ€" tor with one of his kindly, whimgiâ€" cal smiles, ‘"and to protect my throat, as well as for man er prac;ic’al reasons, 1 leg ‘my? &gfll grow. And, now‘"‘â€"he hesitated, ‘well, now, I‘m used to it, and I‘ve never found any sufficient reaâ€" son to take it off. Soâ€"there it is.‘"‘ E: VHc-:fi.éa}"Js that the cow is a philoâ€" sophical animal, practicing paâ€" tience and calmness in a way that is soothing to behold, and that should be a perpetual lesson to all mankind. Perhaps it is because as, he inâ€" sists, the cow has a really beautiful personality that he gives each one of the kine he loves best a friendly, familiar name, the most distingâ€" uished of which is Pauline. _ She was presented to President Taft and his family, and figured conâ€" The smoothâ€" shaven, handsome young man confessed to knowing nothingâ€"abhout northern Wisconsin at any time of the year except as he saw it on the map. A smooth shaven, handsome chap approached Senator Stephenson not long ago on the subject of beards. "Well, now, my boy," said Unâ€" cle Ike, "‘when I was a lumber jack up there in Wisconsinâ€"were you ever up there in that part of the country in the winter?" spicuously in the domestic history of the last administration. His Whiskers Not White. The oldest and richest man in Congress is also one of the five men in the United States Senate who wear whiskers, and be it recorded to his youth they are not white. They are no grayer than Senator Lodge‘s trim, proper, New Engâ€" land cut of beard, although he is twentyâ€"one years younger ; Senator O‘Gorman of New York was not born until Senator Stephenson was 31 years old, and yet his beard is as ironâ€"gray as that of the man who was 85 years old the 18th of June ; both Senator Lewis of Illinois, the the youngest man in the Senate to wear a beard, and Senator Sutherâ€" land of Utah, only a few years oldâ€" er, are still untouched with the streaks of white. ‘"Why do you wear whiskers, anyway. Mr. Senator, in this hot weather ?" TD C n w 3 fex in h wfe e s COd iAact ce t o . asked the ClerK. ractical reasons, I lef my beafd| Dadâ€"What‘s your objection to u(f‘.l‘\-o;‘l.ve givem her a lob of that. row. And,. now‘"‘â€"he hesitated, | that young fellow, Jaysport ! but she doesn‘t seem to care for it." well, now, I‘m used to it, and| Daughterâ€"His clothes ars so awâ€" S mmmmmien} ve never found any sufficient reaâ€" |fully pronounced and his English is Bingletonâ€"*"Do you believe in the n to take it off. Soâ€"there it is.‘"‘ | pronounced so awfully. old adage about marrying=in haste <hooffts ww â€" e ‘and repenting at leisure?" Wedâ€" Most menâ€"are industrial from neâ€"| ~Patience may be the lazv: man‘allaetan IMa T Aanlk _ Alena a s.amn even chance with the man who AGED U.S. SENATOR. Senator Stephenson Deafness. Two things are essential to perâ€" feot hearingâ€"a free passage of the sound waves to the internal ear, and a healthy condition of the apâ€" paratus that perceives sound in the internal ear ard in the brain. Disâ€" ease of the auditory nerve at any part of its course from its origin in the brain to its termination in the internal ear causes the «most seriâ€" ous, and fortunately the least freâ€" quent, form of deafness. Disease of the auditory nerve can be causâ€" ed by a chronic inflammation that has extended inward from the midâ€" dle ear ; by exhaustion of the nerve by excessive noise, as in the case of boilerâ€"makers, of sailors during a battle at sea, or of artillerymen ; by constitutional: disease; or by some affection of the brain its:alf. The other form of deafnessâ€"that caused by interference with the passage of the sound waves to the auditory nerveâ€"is often curable ; at least, the hearing can usually be helped by some form of apparatus. One cause of deafness is an actcuâ€" mulation of wax in the ear ; another is the blocking of the Eustachian tube, which admits air to the midâ€" dle ear from the throat. The aurist can often remove the wax or the obâ€" struction in the tube, and so reâ€" store the hearing. Catarrhal deafness, which is owâ€" ing to the spread of chronic inâ€" flammation from the mucous memâ€" brane of the nose or throat, is more intractable. In such cases the joints of the chain of little bones that conduct the sound waves from the drum membrane to the internal ear become so stiffened that they do not perform their office perfectâ€" ly. Even then the aurist can someâ€" times reduce the inflammation, and restore suppleness to the little joints ; even if he cannot cure the deafness, he can arrest its proâ€" gress. In most cases of chronic and inâ€" curable deaifness, some form of apâ€" paratus will help the trouble. A small and inconspicuous ‘horn, & speaking tube, a fan shaped piece cf guttaâ€"percha held against the teeth to transmit the sound waves through the bones of the head, or an electrical appliance that works Among the Richest Portions of the| Complaints of these conditions British Empire. xx}ade in_the reichstag, hz_i\‘.e from i o time to time moved the minister of It has been proved that anything | war to declare that the government that can be grown or produced in | was equally concerned and was doâ€" any other part of the Empire can be ing its best to put a stop to them. successfully grown or p’(’d“ced[Figure-s have been quoted to show within the island continent of Ausâ€" | that cases of mistreatment are gradâ€" traha. V“uhethe_r 3 the form ,"f}ually growing less common, and it w.hegxt, wool, dairy products, fruit, |has been declared that the governâ€" t.xm er, meat, or minerals, Austraâ€" ]ment desired that punishment of the lia has been able' already to PrOâ€"| offenders be exemplary. d.“?e and export in fairly substanâ€" | _ With all credit to the minister of tial quantities, aqd toâ€"day there 8| war, it must nevertheless be said & ’?'Pl“‘,“y growmek demand fo"|that sentences in the majority of every kind of product. The ErOWâ€"s4hese cases are extremely mild and ing demand for the products hasib‘, no means calculated to disâ€" encouraged the Australian Governâ€" }cfmrage brutal officers from a repeâ€" ments to ‘‘speed up‘‘ the work Of fition of their offences. The nonâ€" immigration. The soil is there @and |nommissioned officer just mentionâ€" the climate is eminently favorable:|aq was sentenced to three months Although for several years there has and fifteen days‘ imprisonment and been a steady stream of immigration :degr@ded This is a really severe and the newâ€"comers have soon been | sentence, but it is at the same time able to "fit in‘ and become '“c"e“’lamost iinusuai one. ful producers those who are apt to| 7p4 following case is typical of think the best opportunities !“""]the nearly ten cases occurring on been seized and that there is a a, average each week. _A noncomâ€" rf::]li.n;;fd m’fel;-;ro;xdr.tn%i] mlg\ht, be ; missioned officer of the Third Guard ha is 3t of the fact that Austraâ€"}fjeld Artillery regiment commandâ€" ia is still one of the most sparsely . ed a recruit to clean harnesses. He peopled portions of the British Emâ€"| as not satisfied with the recruit‘s P"‘l‘l It has shown that it is NAtâ€"| work and started expressing his “f“.' y among the richest by reason | qissatisfaction by striking the man of its wonderful mineral resources, | over the bhead with a bridle. He its fertile soil, and its healthy Cliâ€"|;pen forced him. to march up and mate ; yet there are per square mile [ down in the stables and to do setâ€" ah::::tl’ler t'xun:hber of people than in 1 ting up exercises, including the faâ€" population of onif"I°; . @fece °.3 tiguing knee bend," until the reâ€" ie a y 1.0 persons t9 oruit fell from exhaustion. _ He the square mrle as compared with| ;oked him in the thigh and on the 378.3 persons to the square mile]w and otherwise maltreated in the United Kingdom. ... him > â€" Thi tanrnit, was removed Lo Husbandâ€"There you are my dear ; you see I‘m improving. I‘ve brought the umbrella back. Wifeâ€"That is very extraordinary, considering your umbrella is still in the stand, and that you went out with your walking stick ! on the principle of the telephone are all used. Different forms of apparatus suit different cases, and sometimes it is only by repeated trials that the patient can select the aid that gives him most help. The telephoneâ€"like apparatus is usually most helpful in a public place, although for conversation (provided your upper teeth are your own) the guttaâ€"percha fan is very useful.â€"Youth‘s Companion. For inflamed eyes the white of an egg beaten to a froth is soothâ€" ing. Many cases of defective vision are caused by the habitual use of coffee. : â€"For grit in the eye apply a drop or two of castor oil ; it relieves the irritation. Two or three slices of lemon in a cup of hot tea is said to be a cure for sick headache. An excellent method of relieving a cough is to place a half filled hot water ‘bottle over an alcohol flanâ€" nel on the chest. = AUSTRALIA‘Ss POSITION. Two Objections. Health Hints. Improving. i The following case is typical of \the nearly ten cases occurring on an average each week. A noncomâ€" | missioned officer of the Third Guard ‘Field Artillery regiment commandâ€" |ed a recruit to clean harnesses. He | was not satisfied with the recruit‘s | work and started expressing his ’di&satisfaction by striking the man | over the bead with a bridle. He ‘then forced him, to march up and down in the stables and to do setâ€" ‘ting up exercises, including the faâ€" tiguing knee bend,‘" until the reâ€" _cruit fell from exhaustion. He { kicked him in the thigh and on the \knees and otherwise maltreated !him. The recruit was removed to the field hospital suffering among other things, with concussion of the brain. The court martial condemnâ€" ed the officer to five weeks‘ light THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL Religion Means Righteousness in Every # Relation or in None That religion toâ€"day is a differâ€" ent thing from what is was a few centuries ago is a fact which needs no demonstration. The religion of the modern man, as contrasted with that of his forefathers, has underâ€" gone a hundred changes in interâ€" pretation and application. And no one of these changes has been more remarkable than the gradual exâ€" tension of the practical influence In early days religion was careâ€" fully delimited to particular times, places and duties. There were certain holy spotsâ€"mountain tops, groves, lonely shoresâ€" where God could be met ; certain holy hours or seasons when he must be worâ€" shipped ; certain rites and cereâ€" monies by the practice of which he must be served. Religion was alâ€" most wholly a matter of approachâ€" ing certain altars, offering certain sacrifices, saying certain prayers. These things done, a man was free to do We have a survival in our time of this primitive conception in the noâ€" tion that religion is a matter of reading the Bible, attending public services of worship or supporting the ‘Church, and that if these things be properly done all religiâ€" ous obligations have been satisfacâ€" torily discharged. Toâ€"day, however, we have very largely outgrown this idea. We are living in a period which is characâ€" terized by a practically undisputed extension of religion into the field of private life. It was less than a cenfiury ago, to be sure that Lord Melibourne could say in great wrath on the occasion of hearing a serâ€" mon which unexpectedly dealt with the foibles and sins of individual conduct, ‘"‘Well, well! Things have certainly come to a pretty ~ass "©All in all.‘"â€"I. Chronicles xii., 6. of religion to wider and ever wider areas of experience. Once restrict ced to a very narrow field, religion is toâ€"day rapidly undergoing the process of universalization. Brutality of Oficers to Privates Slowly Decreasing. The unceasing criticism of press and parliament is slowly reducing the number of cases of mistreatâ€" ment of soldiers by their officers, but a recent report shows that 490 noncommissioned officers and offiâ€" cers were convited of such offence last year. This was a redvction of ninety cases from the figures of five years ago, writes a Berlin corresâ€" pondent. * CRUELTY IN These 490 convictions by no means indicate, however, that only that number of private soldiers were brutally handled during the year. A recent case, and one by no means unusual, was the conviction of a noncommissioned officer of the Third Bavarian regiment, who was chargâ€" ed with no less than ninety offenâ€" ces against the men under him. One soldier was lamed by being struck on the kneecap with a gunbutt, and there were a dozen of cases in which recruits were choked and struck in the face. It is not long since a captain was forced to leave the service after his third convicâ€" tion for mistreating recruits. The charges against him covered bruâ€" tal treatment in 140 cases. Complaints of these conditions made in the reichstag, have from time to time moved the minister of war to declare that the government was equally concerned and was doâ€" ing its best to put a stop to them. Figures have been quoted to show that cases of mistreatment are gradâ€" ually growing less common, and it has been declared that the governâ€" ment desired that punishment of the offenders be exemplary. arrest tion?‘ asked the clerk No Fiction. "I want to get a book for fe,‘"‘ said the man entering ok store. ‘‘Bomething in the way of Anything Else He Pleased. GERMAX ARMY. haste Wedâ€" a man the fic lous. We take it for granted thy religion primarily involves no g, artificialities of rituals performe and dogmas believed hbu CEPtAin e"w M.l‘h of ("}Ifl!'m'uar. and that the Church therefore has not only the right but the duty of lay. ing down principles of conduct j, which the religious man must j expected to conform. ‘The mor element, in other words, has enâ€" tered into religion for good and g and made the clean hand and the pure heart as vital a part of pisty as the bowed head and the bept knee and the home as true a sang tuary as the church. when the Church inter{f» man‘s private life!‘ B such a remark only see Not yet, however, has the univer. salization of religion been accomâ€" plished. For we are toâ€"day only just beginning vaguely to realize that beyond the life of the individ. ual is the life of society, and that religion therefore must be made to include not only private but =ub. lie conduct. Long ago we passed out of the stage of excusing a man for lying, theft and adultery the ground that he is a church mem* ber or a Bunday school superinâ€" tendent ; but we are still in the stage of apologizing for a politiâ€" cian‘s or a business man‘s offences against the public weal because he is a good husband and father or never goes back on his friends. Not long, however, can this state of things continue. We are becinning to see that if religion has a place in any part of a man‘s life is assuredâ€" ly has a place in all parts of his life, and if it has been permitted to follow him to the factory, the court house, the exchange. Religion apâ€" plies to everything or it applies to nothing. Religion rightly observed is life and life perfectly lived is religion. This truth shall soon be seen, and then will religion be all in â€" all.‘"â€"Rev. â€" John â€" Hayne Holmes. Earrings are still worn. All tones of gray are popu a: Circle brooches are well liked Women now favor the heavy ring The pendant is still a great ia vorite. Teacherâ€"Now, James, do derstand the meaning of t "extinet 1‘ Jamesâ€"Yes‘m. Teacherâ€"Then name one | is now extinet. Jamesâ€"Chipper. Teacherâ€"Chipper ! What a bird is that ! Jamesâ€"My pet pigeon. caught him this morning Wide striped linens are used to morning frocks. The white hat is much favored b Parisiennes. Coats promise deep cape collat and full skirts. ‘The smartest street hats ar trimmed with quills. Fond Motherâ€"‘"My dear, are ; better this morning?" _ Dollyâ€" don‘t know, mamma. Is the ) all gone?" _ Fond Motherâ€"~\ dear." Dollyâ€"‘‘*Well, Iâ€"think | rig‘Aphrodite" is a lovely azales red tone. ly short. Fabric hats are much w little folks. Ladylike Musband. Mrs. Goodwinâ€"I wish to seloct & present for my husband and 1 can ! find anything suitable. He doe«» t smoke or drink or go out nights or play At 16 a romantic girl expect marry a prince who will drink 1 from dier sli ; ten years | she may m’c}np who d: suds from a can, _ Salespersonâ€"â€"Is he fond work ? The nose veil is here bewitching effect. Larger hats are grad their appearance. The girdle of Roman bon is still worn. The diamond cut in is beautiful and new Black and white com| in great favor. well enough td get up now.‘‘ Many of the newest 4a: are made of chiffon Evening gowns either | gleeves or are sleeveless Long suede gloves are | the little short sleeved © For the tiny tots quail frocks of crepon are desij Little girls‘ suits in t piece style are most nracl The bloomer suit is @10 and more popular for swi The narrow skirt will be a thing of the past be! Fashion favors the idea ing one‘s jewels to one‘s White taffeta hats are rage with the chic Frenc Frocks of white swiss med with bands of fowers Maxixe blue is a new NC tric: maxixe green is a gras Skirts of street suits are extreme The Life of Societ What is Being Worn. Extinet. 18 h ut to ms nd: inted that Hum.,‘ {f th are d n of f2a ed for W are aTre en DÂ¥ M n al at GENERAL General Francisco visional Presid A despatch says : Gener: resigned fron sidency of the Wednesday e nation was a and Chamber of 121 to 17. 1 then appoint« the oath of « sion of Depu Muerta‘s re ted through Foreign Relat the House a: eries of ‘"Yiv then referred tees of Gobe: cons1G fifll‘( the nat Mex alon tum the na #Striks May be Call ter Preatment After resigna pointed Chamb« front .« through dv and short British Co ish Colum! rided just on atril aml ing reXt stril arster $u Ruy PC he w One Roeas set. but 9 PMQ Ma Wh BM “hur Ifihul‘ broth cal ag( n At Montreal 1 One« eve; the Mor ing gecu ers fron of Ire] amount tions ar of abou THECRO® Conditions WO says c J l6 0000 katchewan Departm®! ture, bls'}d on rep‘ telegranh to inguir® conditions on July 1} conditions at the mo the statement that sel crop within one Pro such excellence on t and such poor condit other. Fortunately th erop in which conditio lent greatly exceeds t) they are poor. The o moment is for seventyâ€"< of an average crop. Conditions have recently by a fairly July 11 and a i of local showers. A q the W W LABOR EMPRI despat «1 1 H f1 id M w A R H M 11